Ryan McCartan News

High school graduation, The Orpheum Theatre. The White House. Broadway debut. To say June has been a busy month for Hennepin Theatre Trust Spotlight Triple Threat winner Ryan McCartan is an understatement.

Minnesota SpotLight Student Ryan McCartan Named Best Actor at National High School Musical Theater Awards in New York, June 27

Hennepin Theatre Trust announced that two SpotLight Award-winning students, Sarah Cartwright of Eastview High School in Apple Valley and Ryan McCartan of Minnetonka High School, were selected to represent Minnesota at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards to be held at 7:30 p.m., Monday, June 27, 2011, at the Minskoff Theatre, 1535 Broadway in New York City.

Minnetonka Theatre is taking it to the high seas this July as they present the zany romantic adventure Anything Goes on the Arts Center on 7's Main Stage. This production marks the on-stage reunion of two Twin Cities musical theatre favorites-Jody Briskey as Reno Sweeney, the evangelist-turned-nightclub singer, and Tod Petersen as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, the wealthy and soon-to-be wed Englishman.

After several rounds of tough auditions, the award-winning Minnetonka High School Drama Department has cast its biggest show ever-Andrew Lloyd Webber's romantic masterpiece, The Phantom of the Opera. With performances beginning April 29th, it will be the musical's first ever Minnesota production.

The Master Butchers Singing Club by Marsha Norman based upon the novel by Louise Erdrich developed and directed by Francesca Zambello

The Guthrie Theater today announced complete casting for the world premiere stage production of acclaimed Minnesota author Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club, which will kick off the 2010-11 season on the Wurtele Thrust Stage.

The Guthrie today unveiled a mix of familiar faces and rising stars as it announced casting for the world premiere production of the new musical 'Little House on the Prairie', directed by Francesca Zambello.